Originally Posted by
MPN11
In the putative Kiwi’s case, I would have expected to see circled the CL under FR and BU to denote the award of those clasps (which are displayed on the medal rack).
BTW, I suspect the Service number is in the first column, under the name and with DoB. That would be a normal way of identifying an individual. The last column may just be an internal admin reference number.
* Note the correlation between DoB and the magnitude of the Service number … the 1917 guys are in the same group of numbers, the ‘Kiwi’ has a much higher Svc No.
Isn't if just possible that the clasps, and DSC, may have actually been awarded sometime
after this Discharge list was compiled? Once the naval or other departments were able to catch up with the post-war admin and paperwork?
The UK National Archives reference (found in the link in Stuart Sutcliffe's post) clearly states it is a "Discharge number: R280391". It would be nice to know what the "60104" number really is. If any historians here have familiarity and experience of this sort of document it would be good to hear about it.
Nevertheless, as already mentioned, care and further research is required before fully assuming that the recovered medals and Discharge list actually refer to the same individual.